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#1 Doug Nye

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Posted 30 October 2014 - 21:55

https://www.dropbox....YSTERY.jpg?dl=0

 

https://www.dropbox....YSTERY.jpg?dl=0

 

Photos via: The GP Library (but what are the cars?)

 

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#2 Ray Bell

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Posted 30 October 2014 - 22:01

Corker, Doug!

The rear axle should give some clues, wheels are British and differ front to rear. Some Riley stuff in there?

#3 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 30 October 2014 - 22:26

The rear axle on pic 1 looks maybe Vanguard?  front is a very small 5 stud PCD so what uses about 5x4" or so?

Looks like a Daimler V8 badge on the nose. Is it? Almost certainly a V8 by bonnet design.

Second pic,,, hoo boy 120" wheelbase?. Very long. It must have a very long engine. Might be ok on very high speed corners but not on the twisty stuff.


Edited by Lee Nicolle, 30 October 2014 - 22:28.


#4 Allan Lupton

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Posted 30 October 2014 - 23:44

Isn't the second one the Gilbert HRG-Maserati?

I remember the car at Eight Clubs Silverstone race meetings in the late 1970s by which time it was Singer-engined like other HRGs

 

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In 1949 a well known early BBC presenter,Mr John Gilbert, commissioned HRG to build his "dream" sports/racing car. HRG based the car on an extended wheelbase version of their standard 1500 chassis. Gilbert supplied the engine, a pre war 1100 Maserati straight eight.  HRG Chief Mechanic, Fred Mead constructed the body in the style of the latest Maserati A6GCS sport/racer.

Eventually Gilbert's son Christopher inherited the car and replaced the engine, first with a Ford unit and then a 1500 Singer OHC engine in an effort to obtain more power.



#5 eldougo

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Posted 31 October 2014 - 05:31

/http://carfuture.net/1949-hrg-1500/

Found this on line and it sure is not the same car as pic no 2..... :drunk: 



#6 Allan Lupton

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Posted 31 October 2014 - 08:00

This is the HRG I'm referring to (seen at Silverstone, probably at Eight Clubs, in the 1970s):

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Edited by Allan Lupton, 31 October 2014 - 08:01.


#7 RacingCompagniet

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Posted 31 October 2014 - 11:30

The first one is the Swedish Nobe Sport built by Gustav Nobelius.  It was equipped with a V8 Engine ( a sidevalve Ford?) with eight (!) individual carburettors.



#8 Vitesse2

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Posted 31 October 2014 - 12:19

A much-modified car, it appears! Somewhere under that body there's a little bit of BMW and quite a lot of various Fords ...

 

http://www.kustomram...x.php?title=GB1

 

Doc knutsen and Tomas Karlsson discussed it last year, starting from here:

 

http://forums.autosp...r/#entry6446712